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A social media company is creating a rewards program website for its users.The company gives users points when users create and upload videos to the website.Users redeem their points for gifts or discounts from the company’s affiliated partners.A unique ID identifies users.The partners refer to this ID to verify user eligibility for rewards.The partners want to receive notification of user IDs through an HTTP endpoint when the company gives users points.Hundreds of vendors are interested in becoming affiliated partners every day.The company wants to design an architecture that gives the website the ability to add partners rapidly in a scalable way.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?Read More →

A company uses AWS to run its ecommerce platform.The platform is critical to the company’s operations and has a high volume of traffic and transactions.The company configures a multi-factor authentication (MFA) device to secure its AWS account root user credentials.The company wants to ensure that it will not lose access to the root user account if the MFA device is lost.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to provide customers with secure access to its data.The company processes customer data and stores the results in an Amazon S3 bucket.All the data is subject to strong regulations and security requirements.The data must be encrypted at rest.Each customer must be able to access only their data from their AWS account.Company employees must not be able to access the data.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company serves a dynamic website from a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The website needs to support multiple languages to serve customers around the world.The website’s architecture is running in the us-west-1 Region and is exhibiting high request latency for users that are located in other parts of the world.The website needs to serve requests quickly and efficiently regardless of a user’s location.However, the company does not want to recreate the existing architecture across multiple Regions.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A financial company hosts a web application on AWS.The application uses an Amazon API Gateway Regional API endpoint to give users the ability to retrieve current stock prices.The company’s security team has noticed an increase in the number of API requests.The security team is concerned that HTTP flood attacks might take the application offline.A solutions architect must design a solution to protect the application from this type of attack.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →